Your take on old

[singleh]

Originally Posted by AloneIStand

"Old" is how your body feels.

There are 30 years olds with 60 year old bodies because they don't take care of themselves, and there are 70 year olds with the bodies of people in their 40s because they do!

Hitting the weight, doing some cardio, and eating right is the best fountain of youth there is!!!

I think AloneIStand summed it up pretty well. There is a lot we can do to reduce on increase our chronological age. I recall bumping into an old school friend from about 15 years ago. We looked at each other and in his case he was overweight, balding, looked out of shape. A friend who I was with at the time asked me where I knew him from and I told him we were at school together, he couldnt believe we were the same age.

Maybe that was because I look my age and he looked way older, or maybe I look younger, who knows but either way we have the means to make a difference with our bodies.

[ServoScanMan]

Since I'm in better shape now than I was in my 30s, I'm rethinking that term 'old'. I feel like I'm in my 20s at the moment, although I know my body is not my mind still plays tricks on me. I am now pain free in all my joints and can do chins and pullups. Something that I never was able to say in my teens, 20s and 30s.

[tabbi]

Me too, I am in better shape and have more confidence now at 42 then I did in my 20s or 30s. People often mistake me for being in my late 20s early 30s which is a great boost.

Age is just a number on a piece of paper so people can try and label you. You are who you are.

[GADAWG12]

As I approach 35 and look back through my college years and post college years. I am in the best overall health in my life. Now I have def. lost a step or two on the flag football and softball field. Amazing how the brain knows where you need to be but your legs can't quite get you there. As far as strength, cardiovascular and over all health I am definitely in better shape now.

Point is, that looking ahead I would say old is when you feel it and you decide to be old. Heck, just look at some of the women and guys profiles on bodyspace that are in there late fourties. Wow. We have some women in their fourties and early fifties on here that have the physiques that many 20 somethings drool over.

[Frantec]

Originally Posted by GADAWG12

Point is, that looking ahead I would say old is when you feel it and you decide to be old. Heck, just look at some of the women and guys profiles on bodyspace that are in there late fourties. Wow. We have some women in their fourties and early fifties on here that have the physiques that many 20 somethings drool over.

Gadawg, we all should live a healthy lifestyle including cardio and weight training throughout our lives along with a healthy diet. However, in many cases being old has alot more to do than deciding to be old but can be due to a number of factors beyond our control! As we age, old injuries may manifest themselves into chronic pain syndromes (ie, arthritis) that may curtail our ability to work out as we once did. Genetics may determine to a significant extent if we are prone to certain cardiovascular, neurological and cancer related diseases that tend to appear more frequently in our fifties and beyond that can interfere with our ability to maintain our training regimens. Loss of innervation of our muscles and aerobic capacity, regardless of the intensity of our training, also become more prevalent with advancing age that is beyond our control. Loss of family members, loved ones and friends can result in depression and anxiety disorders that also tend to be much more frequent as we hit our fifties and beyond that can also inpinge on our motivation to train.

I am not suggesting that getting old means that we cannot work out but that none of us can predict how we will respond to aging, physically and psychologically as well as the limitations we may sustain as we age that may be the deciding factor in our ability to workout the way we intended when we were younger.

[clive]

A funny thing to say, but age is getting younger all the time,
People more than ever want to stay younger looking. Be it with styles of clothes, refining the physique, or resorting to surgery.
It's all down to zest in life and preparing to put the effort in, once you stop being like that you're doomed to getting old physically and mentally.

[Frantec]

Originally Posted by clive

A funny thing to say, but age is getting younger all the time,
People more than ever want to stay younger looking. Be it with styles of clothes, refining the physique, or resorting to surgery.
It's all down to zest in life and preparing to put the effort in, once you stop being like that you're doomed to getting old physically and mentally.

Yes, we are a youth oriented society but regardless of our zest in life a happenstance injury, significant illness or major loss can result in a derailment of the best intended intentions to remain youthful. For example, a very close friend of mine, a man of fifty one years of age, was capable of performing a four hundred and fifty pound bench press and was built like an adonis. However, the sudden emergence of a skin cancer, melanoma, resulted in numerous surgeries to save his life and a discontinution of his training. Another training partner, a woman in her forties lost her mother and then her job, went into a depression and her training was derailed. Personally, I sustained a severe injury a few years back that derailed my training for years and until this day impacts on my ability to workout as rigorously as I once did.

[Domkratos]

Shall I tell you about Yury Vlasov, the Soviet Olympic lifter, the strongest man of the 50 and 60s.

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He turned seventy on December 2005. Now he's about 72 and despite of all his late injuries and operations is in excellent shape. For example, he lifts (C&J) 407lb! He trains 2-3 days a week and claims that he has been training since 14 and that "sports makes him feel young". He professes Amosov, Mikulin, and Paul Bragg's lifestyle and dieting philosophy and uses vegetable antioxidants. He says he "ordered himself to lose weight from 264 to 240".

He even ran for presidency back in 1996. Yeltsin’s men tried to bribe him to drop out of the race. He refused. Two weeks prior to the election they issued his obituary. Rumors of his demise had been greatly exaggerated. To my knowledge, they reported that he had “received” about 0.6% of votes!
BTW, unlike the Governor, who considers him his idol, Yury Vlasov lives now in seclusion, almost in oblivion. He's a writer.


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[IR45N]

[QUOTE=Domkratos;102553371]Shall I tell you about Yury Vlasov, the Soviet Olympic lifter, the strongest man of the 50 and 60s.

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Spooky. If I let the hair grown back out, ditto the beard, put the old glasses on, from the chin up, that'd be me. Naturally, with those limitations, doesn't say much about me; can't even claim his neck.

[Domkratos]

Originally Posted by IR45N

Spooky. If I let the hair grown back out, ditto the beard, put the old glasses on, from the chin up, that'd be me. Naturally, with those limitations, doesn't say much about me; can't even claim his neck.

In a way we are all brothers and sisters, some of us even look like twins!

[Jules Verne]

This just made me think about how most of us are probably in better shape than 'The Governor' right now.

[hotdamnman]

Old is a sliding scale, kinda like tomorrow, it never gets here. I am catching up though. When I was in my 20's old was 40's, now that I'm in my 40's I'm thinking more 50's, but I'm doing my best to push it farther away. FWIW, I don't think of anyone on here as "old", just older than me.

[EYE FOR DETAIL]

On My 50th Birthday I Benched A Legal 315, And I Can See My
Self At 70 Doing Pushups On The Porch.

[IronCamp]

Being newly inducted into the OV35 section, I don't know that I can really comment on what "old" is...but to me age is only a #.

I feel as if I am in my mid to late 20's and often get mistaken for it. I sometimes still get carded when buying alcohol. I have worked out and stayed healthy, since my early 20's and I do believe that has affected how I feel and look and my overall health.

I still don't like to think about getting older though.

[design2]

I'm 57. I will stop lifting when they pry the barbell out of my cold dead hands.

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[Dutchman]

Old at 40? 50? 60? Heck no! I'm 66 and STILL getting stronger EVERY year. I have my plans for 70, 75 and later. I train for strength, fitness (1hr lifting +1/2 hr HIIT treadmill X4 EWk.), to maintain my energy, hell truth be told to maintain some appeal to the woman I love and respect from my peers. Age is a state of mind and I don't mind at this stage. This year I hit 2 X 360 in the HS BP, now I want 400 before I turn 67. And I will get it because I don't listen, not now, not ever, to those who said 40, 50, 60 is old. Let them croak on their excuses as they try to keep up.

[KimberleyRN]

My hope and prayer is that if I continue to be active and am smart about not causing injury (or lucky, that is)... There is really no reason I should not be able to be lifting in retirement.

I am a cardiac nurse and I see many folks in their 80's that are quite active. One patient's wife is a yoga instructor and she told me that she still teaches Yoga!

[JOHN GARGANI]

I guess "old" is when you look at MichelleRenee's avatar and your heart doesn't skip a beat:





Michelle, you just look so terrfic..you are blessed.....


being only a few months away from 57 myself, I plan to lift FOREVER....however, and I must emphasize this: you do have to respect age...there is a difference as much we would not like it to be , but there is.......

sensibility must prevail....

[LongnHard]

Yeah I guess if I compare myself to a 20 something y/o guy I am old, they certainly would think so! But if I compare myself to where my father was at my age (53) I am way a head of the game. I intend to be as active as possible at whatever age I am lucky enough to attain and keeping fit and gaining strength is what is going to take me there. I have always found ageing to be interesting and I have talked to some "old" people about it and they all say the same thing: I feel like the same person inside that I always was, my body is just older. So my plan it to take care of my body and see how far it takes me. I wonder if we didn't count the years we were alive and contemplate how many years we might have left, would we feel "younger"?

[giantfan43]

Originally Posted by JOHN GARGANI

I guess "old" is when you look at MichelleRenee's avatar and your heart doesn't skip a beat:





Michelle, you just look so terrfic..you are blessed.....


being only a few months away from 57 myself, I plan to lift FOREVER....however, and I must emphasize this: you do have to respect age...there is a difference as much we would not like it to be , but there is.......

sensibility must prevail....

My heart skipped a beat .. I'm still young

I agree with you john about respecting age. Excellent point !

[EYE FOR DETAIL]

Originally Posted by giantfan43

My heart skipped a beat .. I'm still young

I agree with you john about respecting age. Excellent point !

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